Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
Between seasonal forest and open water lies a stretch of the continent's centre that must be defended and can also be worked, and Bannevar holds it. The woods shed and regrow each year, giving timber, charcoal and mast for swine; the river and the lake give fish, reed and easy carriage. But defense comes first in the reckoning of the place — walls kept in repair, levies drilled in the slack weeks between sowing and harvest, and workshops turning out the gear that arming a district requires. Production and harvest follow behind, feeding the city and the men under arms in it.
Bannevar dates to the third wave of expansion, which shows in how thoroughly it has settled its ground, and its households are Suvanar. The city governs in its own name over the country around it, including smaller places that send it their grain and their sons, and answers in turn to Risbern. Its faith is the Radiant Light.
CityRisbernOne of the greatest cities in the world, seated where a river cuts the grass hills at the continent's heart, Risbern rules its own bloc through arms, the Radiant Light and arcane…
PeopleThe SuvanarThe Ruby-hearth people of the southeastern coast — fair, sun-touched, and fiercest of all the Elekoi in their devotion to the goddess of flame. They are builders and warriors…
CityFlammundThe lake-kingdom where the Infernal Creed was first proclaimed — an independent Suvanar monarchy of eighty thousand, holiest city of the faith, and the respectable face of the…
CityKarlindA modest town of ploughmen and herders on the grassland beside a lake, Karlind is governed from Bannevar, answers through it to Risbern, and keeps the Radiant Light.
CityMenyetsBoats do the work of roads at Menyets, a modest Suvanar town on an eastern rainforest lake that trades in goods, forest harvest and learning under Bannevar and, above it, Risbern.
CityRinderseeA mining town on a rainforest lake at the continent's centre, floating its ore out by boat; Rinderseers answer to Bannevar, through it to Eisvelde, and beyond that to the Risbern…
CityBareshumBareshum spreads across the open southern grassland, a major Ashanar city that lives by arms, muster and remount, and answers to no seat above its own.